I allowed myself to be very playful and unafraid, and to try everything.

For multilingual writers, choosing to write in their heritage languages can be seen as an expression of agency, an active choice to communicate in a nondominant language.

Listen, all of you, to what will later be said of the Forsaken by one of their descendants.

Their nayffara is a flutelike instrument heavy with history, deeply immersed in sorrow.

You will say to them that she sleeps in the calabash of worlds

What you are witnessing is the last face of the Earth.

No doubt a few Galicians will think it in very bad taste to inaugurate this issue with a likeness to their higher profile southern neighbors, but because there may be a great many glad for the comparison,…

i come from a family built on longing.

Enough of their butchery.

Is there some sort of double marginalization at play?

I didn’t go to the dorms as I had planned; my feet led me to the river.

Right from the start, Cabo Verdean concepts of identity and individuality were defined by this mixed reality: the African and the European, in all their diverse and contrasting characteristics.

In those days the island of Boa Vista was the whole world.

Soothsayers tell the truth even when they’re lying.

“That’s what we get for supporting Communism: standing in line for this black loaf.”

The writers here are pushing the boundary of the known and working against the grain of the status quo.

International Booker Prize-winner Georgi Gospodinov takes on economic, political, and moral crises around the world.

Croatian writer Miroslav Krleza portrays a distinctly Balkan Everywhere of blended places and events in this surreal novel excerpt.